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Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.


SharePoint is an online content and document management tool available for students, faculty, and staff to create web sites and manage file libraries.


Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.


Northwestern University's agreement with Adobe offers the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite for use by eligible faculty and staff.


This service is for Software & Apps requests and related tasks.


CrowdStrike Falcon is Northwestern's licensed software application for protecting Northwestern-owned and managed machines and devices against viruses and other malware. For personally owned devices and machines not managed by the University, it is critical that students, faculty, and staff members install antivirus software, update virus definitions, and run virus scans daily.


Northwestern University's agreement with Microsoft offers Microsoft Office software, core client access licenses, and operating system upgrades for University-owned computers


EndNote is a software program designed to store and manipulate bibliographic information.


NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.


Northwestern Information Technology provides traditional phone services to the Northwestern community that include desk phones, conference room phones, voicemail, and software phone clients. Custom configurations for analog voice service or SIP connections can also be provided upon request and consultation.


NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.


The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.


NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.


Power BI is a cloud-based suite of business analytics tools that enables anyone to connect to, visualize, and analyze data with greater speed, efficiency, and understanding.


As part of workstation deployment or redeployment, imaging tools replace the operating system and software on a computer to meet standards set by an administrator. These tools help build and deliver initial software configurations to user machines.


Technology support requests intended for the SESP Technology team.


It is an enterprise sponsored research administration management system with revamped analytics environment to support business functions.


iBuyNU is a web-based ordering tool integrated into NUFinancials. It provides departments and schools with a streamlined, cost effective way to order from University Preferred Vendors.


Northwestern IT offers support, training, and workshops on research data management topics.


RDSS provides secure on-premise data storage for researchers.


Northwestern University is an institutional member of Dryad, a non-profit, community-governed data repository. Any Northwestern researcher can publicly share their research data in Dryad at no cost. Sharing data in Dryad complies with funder and publisher data-sharing polices.


This license provides access to DNAStar software for all faculty, and staff, of Northwestern University.